Vlastimir Velisavljević
Also Known As: Vlasta Velisavljević, Vlastimir Velisavljevic, Vlasta Velisavljevic, Властимир Велисављевић
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia
Adult: No
Birthday: July 28, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 24, 2021
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Next to You
Overview: Set five years on from the school days of director Stevan Filipovic's previous film Next to Me, a state of emergency exists and politicians are accused of capitalising on public anxiety around Covid-19, which makes the shocking situation that reunites the characters significantly more extreme. The story centres on Ksenija (newcomer Mina Nikolic), a driven young woman striving to move from tabloid hack to a career journalist in a world of click-bait headlines and showbiz scandals cooked up to feed the masses. Ksenija's personal and professional journey is hampered when Vera tests positive for Coronavirus and Ksenija must question how far she will bend to survive in a climate where political pressure is increasingly overt and can be said to capitalise on fear during the pandemic.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2023-09-06
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When Day Breaks
Overview: The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2012-08-17
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A Trip Around the World
Overview: A highly fictionalized account of the first Serbian foreign-lottery winner - Jovanče Micić, a merchant from Jagodina who went on to travel the whole world in the company of his Hungarian mistress and Montenegrin friend with a wooden leg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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Nights and Days
Overview: A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1959-07-14
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The Robbery of the Third Reich
Overview: During 1941 in Belgrade, two well-known thieves try to carry out the biggest robbery of Nazi authorities ever.
Genres: Crime Comedy War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2004-02-16
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Winning of Freedom
Overview: WW2 has ended, but that doesn't mean the end of problems for an ex-Partisan who now must take care of reconstruction, as well as the building of a new society in a small Serbian town.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1979-07-04
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Technotise: Edit and I
Overview: Belgrade, 2074. Edit Stefanović, a psychology student, after failing the same university exam for the sixth time, decides to visit a dealer on the black market who installs a stolen military chip in her body that will record everything she sees to help her pass the exam. Edit also has a job at a scientific and social research company, in taking care of Abel Mustafov, an autistic math genius who discovered a formula that connects all forces in the world, but no computer was able to calculate it fully without becoming self-aware and shutting down immediately after that. After Edit sees the formula graph, the chip calculates the formula, and becomes able to "survive" thanks to its connection to Edit. It develops a parallel personality and affords her abilities greater than she ever imagined.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-04-08
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Taxi Blues
Overview: The key character in the story story is Marko, a failed scriptwriter, who has been working as a taxi driver for years and follows his adventures during one hilarious night.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2019-01-17
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Maternal Half-Brothers
Overview: This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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A Little Night Music
Overview: Spasoje and Cole are cute and silly boys who constantly find themselves in risky situations. They work in a morgue. One night they heard mobile phone that rings in your pocket just dead guy. Of course, they can not resist, and answer the call. On the other side man voice ordered them to go to a specific address and get some money. Cole and Spasoje don't reject easy profit...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2002-08-22
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Ivko's Feast
Overview: The story takes place in Nis, towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the calm down of the stormy historic events which led to final liberation of southern Serbian parts from Turkish occupation. The comedy is about celebrating traditional saint's day feast, organized by Ivko and how his guests test the Serbian hospitality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2005-11-03
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Honeymoons
Overview: 'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one is Albania, one in Serbia, who in the midst of wedding celebrations decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries' past and their future lives together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-09-05
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White Lions
Overview: The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker and union leader. His son Gruja is a movie director unemployed for ten years, he shoots weddings and funerals in order to survive and save enough money to shoot his first feature film. White, unemployed opera singer and Gruja's girlfriend, is trying to make money by singing opera arias from house to house. The story is about ruined factories and workers without someone to lead them to a better life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2011-04-28
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Devil's Town
Overview: Black comic debut film about modern Belgrade in which a group of people cross each other’s paths on the same day that Serbian tennis players play an international match at an international tennis tournament. The moral vacuum that was left after the nationalist conflicts in the area are reflected in the self-satisfied behaviour of the characters. Black comedy and ensemble film about modern Belgrade, where several people’s paths cross on the same day that several popular Serbian tennis players play a match in an important international tournament. A young girl tries her best to get her hands on new tennis equipment, a taxi driver blames the rest of the world for not being able to get on in life, a rich adolescent discovers that love is not for sale. Driven by instincts, fears and obsessions, the characters discover that reality will not fit in with their desires.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Midwinter Night's Dream
Overview: A simple story of an ex-convict who comes home after 10 years, only to find two squatters in the form of a woman and her autistic daughter. Though Lazar initially plans to kick out Jasna and Jovana, he changes his mind after seeing the squalid conditions of the shelter they are to move into. It is an allegory of the Balkan wars. When first released in Serbia, it caused some public outrage because of the sharp criticism of Serbia's role in the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2004-10-28
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Change Me
Overview: A story about an ordinary man searching for the fulfillment of dreams and emotions. Well-known Belgrade dentist lives in long and happy marriage. As a fulfilled and happy man, he despises all his friends who are struggling with the "backward puberty syndrome" - as he called sensitive age where men are desperate to stay young. But he has no idea that he will be hit by the "mid-life crisis" and suddenly "strike" love, which, he thought, become immune. In order to overcome the emotional and erotic temptation, it seems everything to be changed, in the true sense of the word.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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Falling in the Paradise
Overview: A half-mad patriot who shot Avax from the roof of his house captures its American pilot during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. The hostage gets romantically involved with his sister while unsuccessfully trying to escape.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2004-08-19
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The Optimists
Overview: Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2006-09-29
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Let's Move On
Overview: The film takes us back to a moving, exciting and unforgettable period in time, the time of Liberation and emancipation. A young teacher – Partisan arrives in a small Serbian town. His wartime, partisan “pedagogy” conflicts with the old methods of work in schools. The children, of course, stand by their teacher, their true friend. The film is a child’s memory and remembrance of an evil, cruel period that left deep imprints in the children’s sensitive and delicate soul of entire generations whose childhood was wounded in the war. The story unfolds over a period of several months, between the fall of 1944 and the summer of 1945, when somewhere far away, in Japan, the atomic bomb is fried to announce a new-atomic era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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Eighth Day in a Week
Overview: A middle-aged businessman is left by his wife, who was dissatisfied with their marital routine. For the first time, he is left alone and without obligations. He meets a young gypsy girl, a singer in a pub orchestra, and begins to wander the city with her, discovering a completely different world.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Music
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1990-04-09
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Bury the Dead
Overview: An expressionist and anti-war drama by the American playwright Irwin Shaw. It dramatizes the refusal of six dead soldiers during an unspecified war—who represent a cross-section of American society—to be buried. Each rises from a mass nameless grave to express his anguish.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-11-10
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Eagles Fly Early
Overview: A group of kids from the Bosnian village often run away from school from the terror of Pepper, a teacher who got his nickname because of his red nose. Soon they formed a brigand division, but have been discovered and caught. The sudden arrival of year 1941 turns their game into reality.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-04-30
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No Problem
Overview: The manager of a company gets in trouble when he cannot pay his workers. The billions were spent on a football stadium which is empty now, and the bank did not approve new credits for the meaningless investments. Maybe the stadium will get filled during the concert of popular singer Lepa Brena.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1984-10-29
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Have You Seen This Woman?
Overview: In the heat of a summer day, Draginja discovers a dead body that resembles her. In the heat of a summer day, Draginja hires a fake husband to show off in front of her friends. In the cold of a winter night, Draginja roams the streets hoping to recover her lost memory. Through three different life possibilities, a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Kir Janja
Overview: A comedy of characters in three acts by the Serbian writer Jovan Sterija Popovic from 1837. Sterija presented Kir Janja as a negative comic hero whose passion for money deformed his personality. He keeps complaining, even though he is very rich.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1998-02-04
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People Will Reward All This
Overview: A story about war-disabled combatants that fought in Serbo-Turkish wars in 1876-1878. Left on their own and without limbs, they became beggars – a burden for the state that doesn’t pay attention about them. Their destiny depends exclusively on people who feel sympathy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-02-02
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Ivan
Overview: The father of young boy discovers his wife's secret after a minor injury his son sustained, which showed him having a different blood group than that of his parents.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Slavenski
Overview: A musical film, occasionally a melodrama, with comic segments, brings together two wars, several bombings of Belgrade on different occasions, one school revolt and one real revolution in the story of an artist important for the entire area of the ex-country.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2020-07-07
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It's Not All What It Looks Like
Overview: A comedy about two petty criminals Mungos and Tetreb who decide to rob a cafe full of valuable things for New Year's Eve. Robbery goes wrong and they run into a series of problems that they are trying to get out of.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2019-08-26
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The Jukebox
Overview: The plot is focused around three women in an old tavern, famous for its jukebox that was left over to the landlady by her husband when he went on a trip from which he never returned. There is also a spinster-turned-alcoholic because her fiance left her, as well as a young waitress who is waiting for her own fiance but has the impression that she will remain alone like these two. Various new men enter their lives, and in many different ways they destroy the memory of those who left them or contributed to their situation.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-12-20
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More Than a Game
Overview: Popular TV series has been reedited into a theatrical film with additional material that has not been seen on TV before. The film is a homage to the legends of the Yugoslav theater, some of whom are no longer alive. The story takes place in the town for ten years from 1931 to 1941 and shows the conflict of progressive and humane ideas with fascism. A film made from the TV series of the same name (nine episodes) realized in 1976 and shown in 1977.
Genres: War Comedy Adventure
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1976-03-20
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Romance with a Double Bass
Overview: Lyrical story about a young double bass musician who travels with fellow musicians out of town to play at a wedding in a summer house. A thief and a girl, a bride at a wedding, will unexpectedly determine his fate. In a film without dialogue, music has a special role.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Attacker
Overview: A successful man, a television presenter is living his dignified and comfortable life. And then, one night in the parking lot he gets beaten up. He does not know who attacked him, does not know why he was attacked. When a few days later he experiences another attack, his life begins to change: friends are suspicious, he gets a promotion, his girlfriend doubt his sanity ... lost, he wanders through the dark streets at night and searching for the assailants. On one such night, and I suddenly raises his hand to the unknown man...
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1993-06-09
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The Place of Meeting: Belgrade
Overview: A joint venture of Yugoslav police and reporters in their effort to track down the members of criminal gang who steal artworks and sell them in Austria.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Plug Impermeable to Water
Overview: A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt one.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Military Academy 2
Overview: Who will finish the academy, and who will quit? What relationship will survive, and what will fade away? Young cadets have a lot in their lives - ambitions, careers, problems and happy endings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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It Will Be Better
Overview: A local bar/restaurant run by a feuding husband and wife find themselves and their business threatened by a not so bright group of extortionists. With the help of their patrons who wish to preserve their quiet mode of patronage and a motor cycle riding stranger, they take the fight directly back to the villains with some non conventional approaches.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Terrace on the Roof
Overview: Two very different, but aging neighbors, Ratko and Krekich, share a rooftop terrace. Their settled lives are overturned by the arrival of an outgoing young girl, Andja, who takes the empty flat next door. But their dreams of revived youth and love and a better life, outside the strife of Yugoslavia's civil war, are short-lived as jealousy and army duty tear them apart.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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How I Was Stolen by the Germans
Overview: How I Was Stolen by the Germans (Serbian: Koko su me ukrali Nemci) is a Serbian movie. Alex (52) is sufficiently renowned writer who is engaged in repairing other people's texts. It is vital, educated, talented but a bit of a misanthrope. One day in his life enters a girl Roma (6). Alex tells her the stories of his childhood ... The movie is a story of the film director childhood.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2011-06-23
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Mama's Boy
Overview: Middle-aged cinephile and film projectionist Pera still lives with his mother - and best friend - Mara, in Belgrade. It's 1999 and when NATO bombs start raining down on Serbia, the two of them become refugees. After a surreal journey, they end up in New York, where Pera realizes that he can no longer do the old job he loved so much. While he and Mara were struggling to survive, the new age of digital projection was born. Then Pera stumbles upon some discarded projectors and his new mission in life becomes clear: he will travel around and show people the magic of Real Cinema - the magic that can only be created by celluoid, mechanical projectors, the silver screen and flickering light.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2013-06-22
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Tight Skin 2
Overview: At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1987-11-02
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Tight Skin 4
Overview: At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-11-28
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Orphan
Overview: Story of children growing up in Yugoslavia right after the end of World War II.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-02-27
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State
Overview: While scouting locations for a shoot in Belgrade, Jelena, a young director makes up a story about Marija, a professor of political theory, whose dying father has revealed to her some medical files that could be of interest to several intelligence services. Marija has affection for Marko, a student - until she realizes that he had gotten close to her in order to learn her father's secrets. Marko explains that her father took part in Medical experiments in Africa, which led to deaths of many people in the Congo. Marija has no way of checking whether these allegations are true, because her father dies. She is faced with a dilemma: should she give her father's files to Marko or sell them to foreign intelligence services.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2013-07-03
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The Frog
Overview: Zeko, a barber and ex-soldier suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, invites his brother Braco and his friend Švabo to Eid festivities. He intends to take advantage of the festive mood and ask his brother, a gambler and alcoholic, to change his ways. Braco doesn’t want to listen and will not take the conversation seriously. Zeko puts a razor under his brother’s neck, forcing him to promise he will change; furious, Braco leaves, telling Zeko he will never see him again, while Švabo suggests that Zeko see a psychiatrist. Alone, without his only friend and his brother, Zeko decides to kill himself – until Muki, a young man selling books door-to-door, stops him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2017-08-14
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Buy Me an Eliot
Overview: A young unemployed saxophone player Boki is pursued by debt collector agency, whose secretary tries to save him. Having reached his dead end, the racketeers give him a twelve hours deadline to find the money. He calls everyone he could remember and unsuccessfully begs for help. The time inevitably runs...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1998-05-25
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Girl from the Mountains
Overview: The relationship between a boy and a girl shortly after the start of the war and the arrival of the Germans. He goes to Chetniks, and there he disappears without a trace, and she ,after much torture and solitude, begins to search for him not thinking in those moments of what the horrors of war can bring.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1972-01-07
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Desire Named Streetcar
Overview: In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Three-Hearts Locket
Overview: A three-part omnibus. First story: Two friends remember their past, while unsuccessfully trying to win girl's heart. Second story: A teenage girl falls in love with a grown man for whom this encounter is nothing but an unimportant meeting. Third story: A young girl from conservatory meets a man of her dreams.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1962-03-23
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The Cabinet Minister's Wife
Overview: Becoming a wife of a minister, Zivka changes her former way of life and becomes a lady. However, her fashionable way of life is of short duration, since her husband is forced to resign after a being involved in a scandal. Based on a highly popular Serbian comedy novel by Branislav Nusic.
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Escapes
Overview: Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-07-28
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Battle of Kosovo
Overview: In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in order to continue conquering Europe through it.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-06-12
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Fate
Overview: A father-to-be faces "the temple of order" which he dislikes - by going shopping in a hypermarket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Bon Voyage, Neighbor
Overview: Members of the family travel somewhere.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2019-11-22
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Labyrinth
Overview: The story evolves around the Arian sect. During the III century AD they have seriously shaken the very foundations of Christian world. It is also known that in this region they had a stronghold between towns of Sirmium and Belgrade. "Labyrinth" is not only the story about our times, but a story of our roots.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2002-08-26
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A Diary of Insults
Overview: Middle-aged couple try to preserve at least some of their dignified life in times of war, poverty and sanctions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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The Knife
Overview: In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1999-03-19
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Mortal Spring
Overview: An adaptation of a well-known novel by Hungarian writer Lajos Zilahy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Big Small Prom
Overview: A girl prepares for her prom night and the funny events leading up to it.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Better Life
Overview: A film based on the highly popular Yugoslav TV series Better Life. Dragiša 'Giga' Popadić, the head of the Popadić family, organizes a Women's Day shopping trip to Thessaloniki, Greece, for his female coworkers.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-03-08
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